The $50.00 rebate was to the customer, NOT the dispenser. As far as my practice, and those of a few others I am familiar with, Johnson and Johnson delivered on the "hype" by providing a product that was superior in many respects, to other products I was using. The product certainly did not fail.

I do not know this for a fact, but my best quess is that Essilor initiated the aquisition talks rather than the other way around.The reason I think it was this way was because I think Essilor recognized the Definity filled a niche in their product line and all the road work (product development, and marketing) had been done. They weren't buying a pig in a poke, they had a proved product.

To claim the reasoning had anything to do with greed is ludicrous. We operate in a capitalistic business climate driven by profits. Ethical companies are driven by their stockholders not by greed.I know both companies and I know them to be ethical.